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Tell Me

"Hermione. Are you okay?" Harry said, running into the kitchen.

"Don't worry about me," Hermione said.

Harry noticed Ron in the corner, but Ron signalled him to stay quiet.

"Come sit with me for a minute," Harry told her, taking her by the arm, to the living

room.

Hermione rested her head on Harry's shoulder.

"The kids will be back tomorrow," Harry said.

"I really missed them," Hermione said. "I can't wait to see my baby again."

"Mind if I join you guys?" Ron said, taking a seat on the sofa.

"Not at all," Hermione said.

"Okay, I'm going to head off to bed. Do me a favour though, tell him everything tonight.

I'm getting tired of leaving you two in awkward silence," Harry said, laughing a little bit.

"Goodnight."

"Goodnight Harry," they replied.

"How did we get together?" Ron asked suddenly.

"This is weird," Hermione sighed. "Where am I supposed to start?"

"The first time I saw you after the funeral."

"That was the day before Bill's wedding. I got here pretty early in the morning. You were

still sleeping, actually… Your mum said you were being lazy and told me to get you up. I

yelled at you for nearly five minutes, and you still wouldn't get up. I was starting to get

quite annoyed, so I got a bucket of cold water and threw it on you. You finally woke up,

but you refused to speak to me for the rest of the morning," Hermione said, laughing.

"Later in the afternoon, you seem to have forgiven me because we left to pick Harry and

we were on speaking terms. I apparated the both of us over there- Do you really want to

know this stuff?" Hermione asked him suddenly.

"Yeah, I do," he said.

So Hermione continued the story, right up to the night of Bill and Fleur's wedding.

"Harry and Ginny pushed us together, but we didn't say a word throughout the whole

song. I dragged you outside, and I really let you have it. You stayed silent, so I walked

away and left you out there. I went back inside and Harry tried to make me feel better. It

didn't really work, so I decided to take a walk. After awhile I just decided to sit out there

in the dark and think. A few minutes had passed and then you showed up."

"Did I get things right that time?" Ron asked with a grin.

"Perfect," Hermione said. "You were so sweet. For those few minutes, everything in my

life was perfect. I had everything I wanted."

"What happened after that?" Ron asked.

"You, me, Ginny, Harry, and your mum rushed off to the hospital because my parents

had been taken in," Hermione said, voice shaky.

"They died that night."

"I'm so sorry," Ron said, touching her hand.

"I changed after that. You and Harry said you couldn't even tell it was me sometimes. I

wanted revenge and I wanted us to win the war. I wanted the pain to go. I kind of pushed

you away, both of you. But I still loved you. I think I just wanted to know that we would

all be okay; that you would still be there the next day."

"Taking care of me and Harry as usual," Ron said.

Hermione gave him a small smile.

"Every night I would wake up crying, though I was usually good at hiding it from you

and Harry. I saw my parents whenever I closed my eyes… One night you did hear me,

and I finally opened up. It's like you saved me that night," she whispered. "Things got

better. You and me actually got the chance to be you and me. We were happy even

though it was war ninety-nine percent of the time."

"War between you and me or the bad guys?" Ron asked jokingly.

Hermione just smacked his arm.

"On the night before the final battle, Charlie died. One of the Death Eaters did it. Harry

and I told you to go home and be with your family. You ended up leaving with them, but

we kind of knew that you would be back… Before the three of us headed off to search for

the Horcruxes, you and I made a deal that we would save Harry if we ever had to choose

between the other or him. We knew that, ultimately, he had to make it… Anyway when

you were gone, I told Harry to promise me that if he had to choose between you and I, he

would save you. He told me that he wouldn't be able to do that since you already made

him promise to save me if worse came to worse."

"I came back, didn't I?" Ron asked.

"You did, and I tried everything to get you to go back home. I even told you that I didn't

want you there; but you wouldn't go," she sighed.

"Let me guess, we stopped talking for the rest of the night?" "Most of the night. You

came to find me after everyone else was asleep. You wanted to know why I didn't want

you around. I told you that you should be grieving with your family, but you didn't

totally believe that, even though I meant it… I told you I was worried because I found out

about your deal with Harry."

"What happened after that?"

"You asked me why I cared so much about what would happen to you with an innocent

little grin on your face. I told you I loved you, which was no surprise. I knew you'd make

me say it first… Basically you said that I wasn't getting rid of you. You were going to

fight with me and Harry because that's where you wanted to be."

Ron smiled.

"A little while later you told me you were going to marry me as soon as the war was

over."

"I guess I finally got some courage," Ron said.

"It was late, so we were going to head back and get some sleep. When we got back in, we

went to the back of the cave instead; where nobody else was," Hermione said, slightly

uncomfortable. "I think you can figure out what happened next," she concluded.

"I've got a pretty good idea, yeah," he grinned. "I still don't know how we ended up

married, though."

Hermione took a deep breath. "Before we could think, our clothes were gone, and

basically hormones took over. I kind of freaked out before I let anything else happen.

Then you said, and I quote 'Screw waiting until the war is over. Why don't you marry me

right now. Other people can wait to find out. We'll just tell Harry in the morning. We can

make things official later. All that matters is what we say now.'

"Whoa," Ron said.

"Then I asked you if you would still want to marry me right then if our clothes were still

on. You said yes, and I could tell from the look in your eye that you meant it… I told you

yes. So between the two of us we were married. You know the rest. The next morning we

told Harry. He, Neville, Luna, and Hagrid were the witnesses, to basically prove that

people knew about the union."

"So we're actually married?"

"We had witnesses, so yes we are. But we didn't sign papers, so, we're not married if you

don't want to be," Hermione said honestly, getting up. "You're not trapped or anything,

don't worry."